I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are not in a position to get the details right, because they don't hang around with artists. It's not something you can get the vague gist of. It's too specific.

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.